Page Redirects

When you rename a page or move a page or site from one directory location to another, this results in a change in URL for that page or site. Whenever you change a page's URL, you can put a redirect page in place at the old URL. Users may have bookmarked the old URL or other web pages may link to it.

Without a redirect page, users following links to the old URL will get a 404 (Page not found) error. A redirect page will automatically route the user to the new location, as invisibly as you desire. In the META-HTTP-EQUIV tag, the content attribute indicates how many seconds (in the example below, 5 seconds) before the user is whisked off to the new location specified in the URL attribute. We recommend using 3-5 seconds on all redirects so the users are made aware that the page has moved and have time to read the short message displayed. Zero second redirects are not recommended if you want your users to update their bookmarks.

You may copy this code to create a new page at the old location, editing appropriately:

<!doctype html public"-//w3c//dtd html 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="5; 
    url=http://www.newlocation.com/page.html">
<title>Please note the change of address!</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#ffffff">

<h2>We have moved! Please update your bookmarks! If you are
not automatically redirected to the new address in 5 seconds,
please go to <a href="http://www.newlocation.com/page.html">
	http://www.newlocation.com/page.html</a></h2>

</body>
</html>